Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Fixed compilation error

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On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:05 +0530, simran singhal wrote:
> >> Fixed compilation warning in lustre/lustre/llite/range_lock.c
> >
> > Really?  What compilation warning was removed?
>
> CC [M]  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.o
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c: In function
> ‘mgc_set_info_async’:
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c:1036:115: warning:
> format ‘%s’ expects argument of type ‘char *’, but argument 3 has type
> ‘void *’ [-Wformat=]
>
> I was getting this warning because of changing (char *)val to val
> where val is a pointer to void.
> So I fixed this by reverting this change.

Someone pointed out recently that when you make the cover letter for vn+1,
the subject should not change.  It doesn't describe what is new in the
version.  You put that in the message.

julia

>
> Simran
>
> >
> >> simran singhal (5):
> >>   staging: nvec: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
> >>   staging: lustre: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
> >>   staging: lustre: lustre: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
> >>   staging: rts5208: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
> >>   staging: rtl8712: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
> >
> > What compiler warns about unnecessary casts?
> >
> >>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/range_lock.c |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lmv_obd.c      |  4 ++--
> >>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mgc/mgc_request.c  |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/nvec/nvec_kbd.c                  |  2 +-
> >>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c           | 11 +++++------
> >>  drivers/staging/rts5208/rtsx_transport.c         |  3 +--
> >>  6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >>
>
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